Verbal Questions - November 2007

Till November 30

WORDS:

1.Stagnant : Not moving or flowing; motionless, inactive;
Synonyms: brackish, dormant, filthy, inert, passive, putrid, sluggish, stale..
Antonyms: active, flowing.

2.Luminary : An object, such as a celestial body, that gives light; a person who is an inspiration to others.
Synonyms: celebrity, dignitary, eminence, leader, notability, personage, worthy .
Antonyms: nobody

3.Malaise : a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort.
Synonyms: angst, anxiety, debility, decrepitude, depression, despair, doldrums, enervation, feebleness, infirmity, lassitude, melancholy, uneasiness.
Antonyms: healthy, well-being
4.Exculpate: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame;
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, amnesty, condone, dismiss, exonerate, pardon, rationalize, remit, vindicate .
Antonyms: blame, condemn, convict, inculpate, indict, sentence.

5.Majesty : supreme greatness or authority;
Synonyms: Hellenism, dignity, elegance, eloquence, grandeur, lucidity, neoclassicism, nobility, sobriety, sublimity.
Antonyms: romanticism

6.Abjectness : Being of the most miserable kind;
Synonyms: contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable, destitute, downtrodden, fawning, forlorn, groveling, pathetic, squalid, stark, submissive, wretched.
Antonyms: commendable, dignified, esteemed, exalted, honorable.

7.Satiate : to supply with anything to excess; to satisfy to the full.
Synonyms: cloy, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, slake, surfeit.
Antonyms: deprive, dissatisfy, starve.

8.Slake : to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc;

9. Exhaustive : tending to exhaust or drain
Synonyms: comprehensive, embracive, encyclopedic, intensive, profound, radical.
Antonyms: cursory, incomplete, perfunctory, shallow, superficial.

10.Appeal : an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.;
Synonyms: adjuration, bid, claim, entreaty, invocation, overture, recourse, requisition, solicitation, supplication.
Antonyms: refusal, rejection

11.Green :
Synonyms: blooming, burgeoning, callow, flourishing, foliate, immature, juvenile, pliable, puerile, sprouting, supple, verdant.
Antonyms: old

12. Pelf : informal terms for money;

13.Rapport : relation; connection
Synonyms: affinity, compatibility, concord, empathy, groovy, harmony.

14.Culpable : deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
Synonyms: amiss, censurable, impeachable, indictable, liable, reprehensible, sinful.
Antonyms: blameless, inculpable, innocent, not guilty.

15.Condemnation : an expression of strong disapproval;
Synonyms: accusation, censure, conviction, damnation, denouncement, denunciation, doom, proscription, reprobation, reproof, stricture.
Antonyms: absolution, approval, praise
16.Whimsy : excessively playful; fanciful; caprice;

17.Volatile : Tending to vary often or widely;
Synonyms: airy, buoyant, capricious, effervescent, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, fickle, fleeting, frivolous, fugitive, lubricious, resilient, whimsical. Antonyms: calm, stable, steadfast.

18.Irascible : easily provoked to anger; very irritable;
Synonyms: bristly, cantankerous, cranky, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, ireful, ogre, peevish, petulant, querulous, ratty, snappish.

19.Thrifty : careful and diligent in the use of resources;
Synonyms: Scotch, canny, chary, frugal, parsimonious, preserving, prudent, skimpy, sparing.
Antonyms: extravagant, spendthrift, wasteful

20.Miserly :
Synonyms: abject, avaricious, churlish, covetous, illiberal, parsimonious, penurious, screw, sordid, stingy.
Antonyms: extravagant, generous

21.Accolade : any award, honor.
Synonyms: approval, award, badge, decoration, distinction, honor, laurels. Antonyms: criticism.

22.Banquet : a lavish meal; feast.
Synonyms: feast, fete, regale.
Antonyms: light meal, snack.


ANALOGIES:

1.Fir: Tree

2.Culpable: Condemnation

3.Flexible: bent

4.Censure: denunciation

5.Gully: erosion

6.Banquet: meal

7.Dank: moisture


ISSUE TOPICS:

1.Images are better communicative than language.

2.Imagination is more important than knowledge in professional and academic fields.


Till November 29


WORDS:


1.Vanity

2.Soporific

3.Energetic

4.Extol

5.Conundrum

6.Happenstance

7.Pulchritude

8.Rapport

9.Maverick

10. Divest

11.Coherent

12.Swagger

13.Grueling

14.Accolade

15.Gully

16.Fuse

17.Abjectness

18.Majesty

19.Oaf

20.Hull

21.Fix

22.Elucidate

23.Vex

24.Revel

25.Obfuscate

26.Swagger

27.Coherent

28. Nimble

29.Collude


ANALOGIES:


1.Gully: Erosion.

2.Bone: Fossilization

3.Banquet: Meal

4.Dank: Moisture

5.Swelling: Heat

6.Duck : drake

7.Nimble: movement

8.Collude: cooperation

9.Insouciant: worry

10.Experience: green

11.Theater: play

12.Culpable: condemnation


ISSUE TOPICS:


1.Most people choose career on latest things happening, hardly anyone choose job on their talent.

2.Most people choose a career on the basis of such pragmatic considerations as the needs of the economy, the relative ease of finding a job, and the salary they can expect to make. Hardly anyone is free to choose a career based on his or her natural talents or interest in a particular kind of work


Argument Topic:

1.The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.

"The population of Balmer Island increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by each of the island's six moped and bicycle rental companies from 50 per day to 30 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council is sure to attain the 50 percent reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year in the neighboring island of Torseau, when Torseau's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."


Till November 28

WORDS:


1.Extol

2.Whimsy

3.Transgression

4.Volatile

5.Irascible

6.Pelf

7.Rapport

8.Topple


ANALOGIES:


1.Culpable: Condemnation

2.Theater: play

3.Courtroom: trial

4.Flexible: bent



Till November 27

1.Pulchritude: Great physical beauty and appeal.
Synonyms : adorableness, allure, allurement, attraction, elegance, exquisiteness, glamor, good looks, handsomeness, loveliness, physical attractiveness, prettiness, shapeliness
Antonyms: plainness, repulsiveness, ugliness

2.Dire : causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible
Synonyms: acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, critical, crucial, crying, desperate, drastic, exigent, extreme, immoderate, imperative, importunate, instant, pressing
Antonyms: insignificant, trivial, unimportant

3.Inapt: not apt or fitting, without aptitude or capacity
Synonyms: awkward, banal, clumsy, gauche, inadept, incongruous, inept, infelicitous, insipid, jejune, maladroit, malapropos, undexterous, unproficient, unskilled.
Antonyms: competent

4.Convert (v): to change (something) into a different form or properties
Synonyms: adapt, alter, apply, appropriate, commute, interchange, make, metamorphose, modify, remodel, reorganize, restyle, revise, switch, switch over, transfigure, transform, translate, transmogrify, transmute, transpose, turn.
Antonyms: endure, hold, keep, persist, remain, stay.

5.Intractable: not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable
Synonyms: awkward, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, fractious, hang tough, hard-line, headstrong, incurable, indocile, indomitable, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, unpliable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful
Antonyms: manageable

6.Tinge: To apply a trace of color to
Synonyms: cast, colorant, coloration, coloring, dye, dyestuff, hue, nib, pigment, shade, stain, tincture, tint, tone, wash
Antonyms: white

7.Vex: to irritate, to disturb by motion
Synonyms: abrade, afflict, aggravate, agitate, anger, annoy, be at, bug, chafe, depress, exasperate, fret, gall, harass, Harry, hassle, infuriate, irk, irritate, molest, nettle, offend, peeve, perplex, pester, pique, plague, rasp, ride, rile, tease, torment.
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, soothe

8.Mind
Synonyms: apperception, attention, capacity, cognizance, conception, consciousness, genius, ingenuity, instinct, intellect, intuition, lucidity, perception, psyche, ratiocination, sanity, soundness, talent, wisdom, wits.

9.Tranquility: quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness;
Synonyms: ataraxia, calmness, composure, equanimity, hush, imperturbability, imperturbation, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, sedateness, serenity, stillness.
Antonyms: chaos, violence, wildness

10. Jargon (n): any talk or writing that one does not understand.
Synonyms: blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, drivel, gab, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, muttering, prattle, ranting, tattling.
Antonyms: quietness, silence, stillness

11. Altercation: a heated or angry dispute; noisy argument or controversy.
Synonyms: argument, bickering, combat, contest, controversy, dispute, embroilment, falling-out, fuss, hassle, punch out, quarrel, rhubarb, row, spat, squabbling
Antonyms: agreement, concord, harmony, peace, union, unity.

12.Phlegmatic: not easily excited to action or display of emotion
Synonyms: apathetic, cold-blooded, distant, emotionless, frigid, frosty, glacial, impersonal, imperturbable, indifferent, inhibited, lukewarm, matter-of-fact, passionless, spiritless, standoffish, stony, unenthusiastic, unimpassioned.
Antonyms: animated, enthusiastic, excited, fervid, friendly, warm.

13.Magniloquent: speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous
Synonyms: aureate, balderdash, bullshitting, declamatory, euphuistic, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, histrionic, inflated, loudmouth, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, Sonorous, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose.
Antonyms: humble, quiet, reserved, restrained, subtle, understated

14.Intangible

15. Excise

16. Altercation

17. Matter-of-fact

18. Lithe

19.Maverick


ANALOGIES:


1.Actor: cast

2.Nimble: movement

3.Collude: cooperate

4.Insect: insipid

5.Disguise: alter


Till November 26

Words:

1) Matter of fact :Something of a factual nature, as an actual occurrence.
Synonyms:brusque, crude, crusty, gruff, snappy, discourteous, impetuous, snippy, uncivil, ungracious
Antonyms:at ease, calm, civil, courteous, gracious, kind, polite

2) Subsidize:to furnish or aid with a subsidy, To assist or support with a subsidy
synonyms:abet, alleviate, assist, lighten, mitigate, promote, relieve, support, befriend, benefact
antonyms:block, hinder, hurt, impede, injure, obstruct.

3) Jocose:characterized by jokes and good humor
Synonyms:amusing, blithe, cheerful, daffy, facetious, flaky frolicsome, humorous, jesting, joshing, ludicrous, roguish, wacky, waggish, witty whimsical.
Antonyms:morose, serious, unfunny

4) Imaginative:Lacking truth; fanciful, having exceptional powers of imagination
Synonyms:artistic, avant-garde, extravagant, fictive, ingenious, inventive, kinky, quixotic, utopian, visionary, vivid, whimsical.
Antonyms: pedestrian, unimaginative

5) Agape :with the mouth wide open, as in wonder, surprise, or eagerness
Synonyms:agog, anxious, appalled, astonished, awestruck,confounded, dumbfounded, overwhelmed, startled.
Antonyms:undisturbed, unperturbed, unsurprised.

6) Effectual:Producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
Synonyms:accomplishing, binding, determinative, efficacious, forcible, fulfilling, lawful, licit, potent, powerful, practicable, virtuous
Antonyms:impotent, incapable, ineffectual, unproductive, unsuccessful, weak

7) Endurance:the ability or strength to continue, lasting quality
Synonyms:allowance, courage, forbearance, fortitude, grit, guts, mettle, spunk, perseverance, pertinacity restraint, tenacity, vitality
Antonyms:weakness.


ANALOGIES:

1. Ballad: song

2. Plumage: bird

3. Wedding: marriage

4. Experience: green

5. Insouciant: worry


ISSUE TOPIC:

1. Most of the species are on verge of extinction due to natural processes. So society must not take efforts to preserve them by controlling extinction due to human processes. This will save time and money

2. Using charcoal would reduce pollution.


Argument Topic:

1. "Medical reports show the years 1970, 1980, 1997, 2000 were worst flu affected years all over the world and these were years having high sunspot activity ( high radiation) , so in order to prevent our self from flu people must avoid going out in sun.

2. Can TVs replace books?


Till November 23

WORDS:

1.Intangible

2.Palpable

3.Excise

4.Jargon

5.Altercation

6.Matter-in-fact

7.Phlegmatic

8.Magniloquent

9.Venerate

10. Laud

11. Lithe


ANALOGIES:


1.Disguise: alter


ANTONYMS:


1.Revere

2.Folly

3.Shadowed


ISSUE TOPIC:


1.“To truly know your own culture, you need to know atleast one other culture so as to understand the difference."


Till November 22

WORDS:

1.Adulation

2.Tedium

3.Jocose

4.Prodigious

5.Gratuitous

6. Din

7.Natatorium

8.Aphid

9.Dissection

10.Passion

11.Escalation

12.Coy

13.Grating

14.Alter

15.Disguise

16.Crunch

17.Quibble

18.Obstruction

19. Tedium

20.Implacable

21.Propitiated

22.Veracious

23.Insipid

24.Untenable

25.Discommode


ANALOGIES:


1.Insects: aphid

2.Disguise: alter

3.Quibble: obstruction

4.Gratuitous: Justification

5.Plumage: bird

6.Passion: emotions

7.Crunch: support


Till November 21

WORDS:

1.Gainsay

2. Toil

3. Din

4. Natatorium

5.Sybarite

6.Dissection

7.Escalation

8.Coy

9.Gratings

10.Untenable

11.Brazen

12.Exude

13. Temerity

14. Isthmus

15.Strait

16.Despise

17.Plumage

18. Agape

19.Rebuff

20.Dank

21.Topple

22. Arduous

23. Exacting

24. Unctuous

25. Schism

26. Frail

27.Luculent

28. Immutable

29. Altered

30. Implacable


ANALOGIES:

1.Abridge: length

2.Attenuate: thickness

3.Passions: emotions

4.Crunch : support

5.Disguise : alter


Till November 20

WORDS:

1.Superfluous

2.Acumen

3.Brook

4.Plumage

5.Nebulous

6.Starry-eyed

7.Bibliography

8.Pragmatic

9.Phlegmatic

10.Infinitesimal

11.Mettle

12.Taciturn

13.Congeal

14.Raving

15.Effrontery


ISSUE TOPIC:

1)The primary goal of technological advances should be to provide people with leisure time.

2)Another Issue topic is regarding education pattern.... Whether the education pattern should be same for 1 nation, or should be
different for each state.


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1. The author of the article claims that wearing helmets in a particular state increased from 20% to 80% in a span of 10 years, but in
the same decade the accident cases increased by 200%. Hence safety regulations should be taught instead of imposing people to
wear helmets.


Till November 19

WORDS:

1.Boastful

2.Rebuffed

3.Agape

4.Insane

5.Fringe

6.Dilapidate

7.Slight

8.Laze

9.Circumspect

10.Imprudent

11.Magniloquent

12.Forte

13.Hauteur

14.Obstreperous

15.Lubricant

16.Fretwork

17.Pretentious

18.Scad

19.Brazen

20.Exude

21.Temerity

22.Isthmus

23.Strait

24.Despise


ANALOGIES:

1.Fretwork: ornamentation

2.Ardent: zeal

3.Strait: water

4.Isthmus: land

5.Plumage: bird


ISSUE TOPICS:

1.The only responsibility of corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, is to make as much money as possible for their
companies

2.It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1. The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
"Twenty years ago Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is false and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid. Because they are using the interview-centered method, my team of graduate students working in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures."


Till November 16

WORDS:

1.Gaunt

2.Unveil

3.Brazen

4.Province

5.Haunter

6.Imbue

7.Insurgent

8.Enthusiastic

9.Mediocrity

10.Appeased

11.Discreet

12.Imprudent

13.Discreet

14.Prudence

15.Voluble

16.Taciturnity

17.Temerity

18.Absorb

19.Exude

20.Mellifluousv

21. Esteem

22. Inexorable

23. Discreet

24. Insane

25. Scad

26. Brazen

27. Venerate

28. Spurn


ANALOGIES:

1.Trite: novel

2.Venerate: despise

3.Obstreperous: control

4.Isthmus :land

5.Strait: water

6.Rebellious :insurgent


Issue Topic:

1."It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public"

2.In order to improve the quality of instruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be required to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach


Argument Topic:

1.The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a newspaper serving the villages of Castroville and Polluxton. "Both the villages of Castroville and Polluxton have experienced sharp declines in the numbers of residents who pay property taxes. To save money and improve service, the two villages recently merged their once separate garbage collection departments into a single department located in Castroville, and the new department has reported few complaints about its service. Last year the library in Polluxton had 20 percent fewer users than during the previous year. It follows that we should now further economize and improve service, as we did with garbage collection, by closing the library in Polluxton and using the library in Castroville to serve both villages."



Till November 15

WORDS:

1.Nebulous

2.Insane

3.Fringe

4.Dilapidate

5.Delegate

6.Slight

7.Laze

8.Circumspect

9.Imprudent

10.Magniloquent

11.Serve

12.Advent

13.Forte

14.Imbue

15.Hauteur

16.Imbue

17.Gaunt

18.Lofty

19.Abet


ANALOGIES:

1.Ardent :zeal

2.Wary: cautious

3.Implacable: calm

4.Abet: force

5.Everlasting : permanent

6.Obstreperous :Control

7.Pretentious :Annoy

8.Fretwork :ornamentation

9.Oil :lubricant

10.Rebellious :insurgent

11.Abet :nebulous

12.Everlasting :permanent


ISSUE TOPIC:

1.Professors should engage themselves in work outside the academic field relevant to the course they teach in order to improve their quality of education

2.The only responsibility of corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, is to make as much money as possible for their companies.


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

1. The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.

"Twenty years ago Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children
in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children
living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological
parents than about other adults in the village. This research proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is false
and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid. Because they are using the interview-centered
method, my team of graduate students working in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing
traditions there and in other island cultures."


Till November 14

WORDS:

1.Gaunt

2.Complaisant

3.Venerate

4.Lofty

5.Trenchant

6.Aerie

7.Inextricable

8.Crouch

9.Qurush

10.Gaunt

11.Tame

12.Racy

13.Cartographer

14.Novelist

15.Conductor

16.Instrumentalist

17.Director

18.Disavowal

19.Pervasive

20.Symphony

21.Esteem

22.Racy

23.Personable


ANTONYMS:

1.Esteem


ANALOGIES:

1.Novelist :book

2.Conductor :instrumentalist

3.Cartographer :map

4.Director :actor

5.Conductor :symphony


ISSUE TOPIC:

1. It is our responsibility to follow" just" laws and equally more important to oppose and reject "unjust" laws.


Till November 13

WORDS:

1.Discommode

2.Altered

3.Implacable

4.Propitiated

5.Immutable

6.Untenable

7.Trenchant

8.Veracious

9.Insipid


ANALOGIES:

1.Immutable: altered

2.Implacable: propitiated

3.Untenable: debated

4.Trenchant: insipid


Till November 12

WORDS:

1.Unctuous

2.Schism

3.Frail

4.Luculent

5.Absorb

6.Nebulous

7.Scratch

8.Inextricable

9.Crouch

10.Trite

11.Aerie

12.Concur

13. Qurush


ANALOGIES:

1). Engrossed: occupied

2). Furniture: sofa

3). Stench: nose

4). Fingerprint: identification

5). Trademark: manufacturer

6). Rescue: save

7). Tilt: level

8). Punish: pillory

9). Canyon: gully

10). Illicit: permission

11). Pacify: infuriate

12). Ripen: mature

13). Drain: empty

14). Amorphous: structure

15). Abridge: length

16). Assuage: irk

17). Credibility: belief

18). Range: mountain

19). Mendicant: beg

20). Exaggerated: hyperbole

21). Proofread: document

22). Glide: effort

23). Starry-eyed: pragmatic

24). Phlegmatic: arouse

25). Bibliography: publication

26). Infinitesimal: small


Till November 10

1. Unctuous
2. Frail
3. Swarm
4. Schism
5. Luculent


ISSUE TOPICS:

1. Both parents and communities must be involved in the local schools. Education is too important to leave solely to a group of professional educators
2. Most people recognize the benefits of individuality, but the fact is that personal economic success requires conformity
3. The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each
4. Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive, because it is primarily in cities that a nation’s cultural traditions are preserved and generated
5. Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning
6. There is no such thing as purely objective observation. All observation is subjective; it is always guided by the observer’s expectations or desires
7.Many people know how to attain success, but few know how to make the best use of it
8. Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a
public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy
9. As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate
10. How we teach our kids socialization highly influences the future society. We need to adopt better ways to make sure that we have a good society in future
11. In many countries it is now possible to turn on the television and view government at work. Watching these proceedings can help people understand the issues that affect their lives. The more kinds of government proceedings—trials, debates, meetings, etc.—that are televise the more society will benefit


Till November 8

WORDS:

1.Capitulate

2.Abate

3.Perspicacious

4.Assuage

5.Descript

6.Soccer

7.Palpable

8.Bibliography

9.Mettle

10.Taciturn

11.Congeal

12.Raving

13.Effrontery

14.Dank

15.Topple

16.Arduous

17.Exacting


ANTONYMS:

1.Obscure

2.Tedious


ANALOGIES:

1.Abridge :lengthen

2.Blandish :coax

3.Remorseful :compassion

4.Topple :stable

5.Glide :effort

6.Starry-eyed :pragmatic

7.Phlegmatic :arouse

8.Bibliography :publication

9.Infinitesimal :small



ISSUE TOPIC:


1. In many countries it is now possible to turn on the television and view government at work. Watching these proceedings can help people understand the issues that affect their lives. The more kinds of government proceedings---trials, debates, meetings, etc.---that are televised… the more society will benefit

2. Traditions and modernization are incompatible. One has to choose between the two.


Till November 7

WORDS:

1.Palpable

2.Pomp

3.Willowy

4.Uncanny

5.Insouciant

6.Puckish

7.Assiduous

8.Hapless

9.Pillory

10.Canyon

11.Gully

12.Illicit

13.Pacify

14.Infuriate

15.Ripen

16.Modicum

17.Witless

18.Succor

19.Testy

20.Infelicitous

21.Incorrigible

22.Mendicant

23.Irk

24.Range

25.Hyperbole

26.Proofread

27.Versed


ANALOGIES:

1.Pacify :infuriate

2.Ripen :mature

3.Drain :empty

4.Amorphous :structure

5.Abridge :length

6.Assuage :irk

7.Credibility :belief

8.Range :mountain

9.Mendicant :beg

10.Exaggerated :hyperbole

11.Proofread :document


ISSUE TOPICS:

1.There is no such thing as purely objective observation. All observation is subjective; it is always guided by the observer's expectations or desires

2.Many people know how to attain success, but few know how to make the best use of it

3.Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy

4.As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate

5.How we teach our kids socialization highly influences the future society. We need to adopt better ways to make sure that we have a good society in future


Till November 6


WORDS:

1.Mettle

2.Assuage

3.Taciturn

4.Arduous

5.Whet

6.Topple

7.Dank

8.Relinquish

9.Effrontery

10.Abate

11.Pomp

12.Congeal

13.Exacting

14.Penitence

15.Contentious

16.Vain

17.Ravings

18.Exacerbate

19. Unsubstantial

20.Incorrigible

21.Palliate

22.Infelicitous

23.Tenacious

24.Relinquish

25.Unsubstantiated

26.Whet

27.Witless

28.Succor

29.Testy

30.Cascade

31.Fabrication

32.Melancholy

33.Divulge

34.Unsubstantial

35.Oscillate

36.Untactful


ANALOGIES:

1.Glide: effort

2.Stench : nose

3.Starry-eyed : pragmatic

4.Bibliography : publication

5.Phlegmatic :arouse

6.Infinitesimal : small

7.Trademark :: manufacturer

8.Scepter :: Monarch

9.License :: Driver

10.Seal :: Signatory

11.Assuage :irk

12.Credibility :belief

13.Mendicant :beg

14.Range :Mountain

15.Rescue :save


ANTONYMS:

1.Precise

2.Divulge

3.Melancholy


ISSUE TOPICS:

1. In many countries it is now possible to turn on the television and view government at work. Watching these proceedings can help people understand the issues that affect their lives. The more kinds of government proceedings---trials, debates, meetings, etc.---that are televised… the more society will benefit.

2. Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning.



Till November 5

WORDS:

1.CANYON

2.RIPEN

3.DRAIN

4.PACIFY

5.ILLICIT

6.SCEPTRE

7.SEAL

8.ENGROSSED

9.GULLY

10.MATURE

11.EMPTY

12.INFURIATE

13.PERMISSION

14.MONARCH

15.SIGNATORY


ISSUE TOPICS:

1. Many people know how to attain success, but few know how to make the best use of it

2. Public figures such as actors, politicians, and athletes should expect people to be interested in their private lives. When they seek a public role, they should expect that they will lose at least some of their privacy

3. How we teach our kids socialization highly influences the future society. We need to adopt better ways to make sure that we have a good society in future

4. As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate


Till November 2

WORDS:

1. Toil

2. Zealot

3. Ossified

4. Pantry

5. Bungle

6. Prevaricate

7. Prodigal

8. Zealot

9. Persecutor

10. Assuage

11. Derogate

12. Modicum

13. Obdurate

14. Ephemeral

15. Nebulous

16. Aberrant


ANALOGIES:

1.Canyon : gully

2.Ripen : mature

3.Drain : empty

4.Pacify : infuriate

5.illicit - permission


ISSUES TOPIC:

"Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning."

"There is no such thing as purely objective observation. All observation is subjective; it is always guided by the observer's expectations or desires."


ARGUMENT TOPIC:

The following appeared as part of an article in a health and beauty magazine.
"A group of volunteers participated in a study of consumer responses to the new XXX face cream. Every morning for a month, they washed their faces with mild soap and then applied XXXX. At the end of that month, most volunteers reported a marked improvement in the way their skin looked and felt. Thus it appears that XXX is truly effective in improving the condition of facial skin."



Till November 1

WORDS:

1.Rebel

2.Uncanny

3.Willowing

4.Resentful

5.Foolhardy

6.Flashy

7.Assuage

8.Venerate

9.Bogus

10.Stench

11.Temper

12.Protuberance

13.Prescribe

14.Flashy

15.Assuage

16.Venerate

17.Bogus

18.Engrossed

19.Teem

20.Decrepit

21.Hoary

22.Sturdy

23.Homely

24.Sober

25.Melodious

26.Trademark

27.Scepter

28.Monarch

29.Signatory

30.Seal

31.Palliate

32.Concord


ANALOGIES:

1.Engrossed: occupied

2. Furniture: sofa

3. Stench: nose

4. Fingerprint: identification

5. Trademark: manufacturer

6. Fingerprint: identification

7. Stench: Nose


ANTONYMS:

1.Teem

2.Temper

3.Gall